The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1887-11-09
: Personal Liberty Party.

Personal Liberty Party.
The organization of the Personal
Liberal Party has given renewed
interest to,the Sabbath question. A
meeting in the interest ofthe Chris
tian Sunday versus the Continental
Sunday was held last Monday after.
noon in Calvary Baptist Church
DR.. John Hall presided. Resolu.
tons were prepared by DIR. Mac.
Arthur, pastor of the church in
which the meeting was held, Dr.
Taylor, of the Broadway Tabernacle,
and Rev. w. w. Atterbury, secre.
tary of the New York Sabbath Com.
mittee. Probably a hundred min.
listers Of the gospel were present,
besides many ladies and large
number of laymen. The Personal
Liberty Party is made up, as I un-
derstandit, of Socialists, Anarchists,
Infdels, beer-brewers, distillers,
beer guzzlers, saloon-keepers ct i'd
omnegenus; and its purpose, or one
of its purposes, is the abolition of the
first day of the week as a day of rest.
The members Of the party are prob
ably not opposed TO the time as a
holiday so much as they are opposed
to its recognition and obser vance
as holy day. Ostensibly the move
mcnt, so far as Sunday observance
is concerned, is in the interest of
working men; in realty it is con-
trary to their interests, both here
and hereafter. On the Continent of
Europe there Is no protection to the
working man OH Sunday. In Ger
many 1t Is a day of increasing toll
to the poor, but dissipation to the
rich. The German working people
themselves, in their own home, Pc
tition and protest against Sunday
work. The Printers Society in
Berlin, some years ago, issued an
appeal inwhich they affirmed the
need of mental and bodily rest, after
six days Of hard work.
In the organization of the Social
istic Labor Party Of Germany in
1875 programme was issued con-
tanning statement of what they
demand and one item was, the pro-
hibition by the State of Sunday
labor. Will Americans be such fools
as to take up the Continental Sum
day when the people of Europe are
weary of it? Just now, in New
York, the demand will be for the
legal opening of liquor shops and
bt er saloons during certain hours on
the Lords day. 1t seems to me
that the men engaged in the liquor
traffic ought to be satisfied, as other
business men seem to be, with six
days out of the seven in the week
for the prosecution of their calling.
Is their business so much more i'm.
portant to the welfare of society
than that Of other men that they
demand this special legislation in
their behalf? Or is 1t that their
traffic is so Improbable that they
are unable to make a living for
themselves and their families, If the
law continues to require them to
intermit their occupation one day
in seven? Better then give up the
business for something that will
pay better. Or is the opening OF
drinking places asked in the inter.
est of the drinking men? My notion
is that If a man can not get suffi-
GENTLY drunk in six days he would
better give up and determine to re-
main sober. But the Sunday ques-
ton figures in the present political
campaign, and will be thrust upon
the attention of our SOlOns in AL.
bany next winter. For my part, ]
am pleased to have the liquor sell.
ers, with their friends and patrons
manifest the spirit which, of late
they are exhibiting to the world
1t means that their determination
draweth nigh.-Rev. B. B. Taylor
in Christian Standard.
Choiera--State Board Of Health.